Miami Open Main Draw Wild Cards Include Scott and Alcaraz; Qualifying Wild Cards Awarded to Host of Top Junior Players; Las Vegas Grade 4 Underway; Sieg Tops Field in Colombia Grade 1; Redlicki, Young Beat Top Seeds at Cleveland Challenger

The Miami Open released its wild cards today, with Andy Murray the most prominent among them. Seventeen-year-old Carlos Alcaraz of Spain received a main draw wild card, as did 16-year-old Katrina Scott. 

The qualifying wild cards include 16-year-old Alexandra Eala of the Philippines, 15-year-old Linda Fruhvirtova of the Czech Republic, 16-year-old American Robin Montgomery, 17-year-old Shintaro Mochizuki of Japan and 18-year-old Toby Kodat of the United States. 

The complete release from the tournament, which begins with qualifying a week from today, can be found here:

Main Draw:

Carlos Alcaraz(ESP)    

Michael Mmoh

Andy Murray(GBR)             

Hugo Gaston(FRA)

Jack Draper(GBR)

Katrina Scott

Anna Kalinskaya(RUS)

Ana Konjuh(CRO)

Storm Sanders(AUS)

Mayar Sherif(EGY)

Xiyu Wang(CHN)

Xinyu Wang(CHN)

Qualifying:

Ulises Blanch

Christopher Eubanks

Toby Kodat

Emilio Nava

Shintaro Mochizuki(JPN)

Hailey Baptiste

Olga Danilovic(SRB)

Alexandra Eala(PHI)

Linda Fruhvirtova(CZE)

Robin Montgomery

Whitney Osuigwe

The first of the ITF Junior Circuit spring tournaments in the United States began today with a Grade 4 in Las Vegas, a new location for the event that has been in Claremont, Newport Beach and Irvine California in recent years. UCLA recruit Kimmi Hance is the top seed in the girls draw, and she came through the first round with no problem, but boys top seed Fnu Nidunjianzan of China was eliminated by qualifier Sebastian Gorzny 7-5, 6-2. 

The No. 2 seed in the boys draw is Texas A&M recruit Giulio Perego of Italy, while the second seed in the girls draw is 14-year-old Victoria Mboko of Canada, who has played in just one ITF junior competition since the restart last August.

Despite the Las Vegas tournament and the upcoming Grade 1s in San Diego, quite a few American juniors are still in other countries competing this week, with another Grade 2 in the Dominican Republic and a Grade 1 in Barranquilla Colombia. 

Madison Sieg, who did not play the Grade A in Brazil, is the top seed in Colombia, and she won her first round match today. Valencia Xu is the other American girl seeded there, at No. 5.  Ozan Colak is the No. 2 seed in boys draw, with Samir Banerjee[5] and Benjamin Kittay[6] the other seeded Americans. 

The first day of main draw action at the ATP Challenger 80 in Cleveland started with a surprise, as former collegiate star Michael Redlicki(Duke/Arkansas) defeated top seed and ATP No. 103 James Duckworth of Australia 7-6(11), 6-1. As big a win as that was for the 27-year-old left-hander, it wasn't his best win by ranking, as he had defeated Tennys Sandgren, then No. 70 in the ATP rankings, when Sandgren was the top seed at the Houston Challenger in November of 2019. Redlicki will play Kentucky sophomore Liam Draxl in the second round after the Canadian wild card defeated Robert Quiroz(USC) of Ecuador 7-6(6), 6-4 today. No. 2 seed Go Soeda of Japan was also eliminated today, with Donald Young taking out Soeda by a 6-3, 6-7(5), 7-5 score.